Weekly Takeout for July 7

The Weekly Takeout, insideHPC.com’s summary of all the best news from the past week, is up for the week of July 2. In this week’s episode we cover Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s strategy for getting his company into HPC, Intel and AMD’s ongoing battle for quad-core mindshare, Dell’s announcement with cooling specialist Liebert, Power6 software taxes, weekly HPC stock performance, and much more.

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